Australian news, and some related international items

The picture above shows the radiation releases that occur in the normal operations of the nuclear industry.

Ionising radiation: radioactive decay and nuclear fission release tiny particles, some short-lived, some lasting for thousands of years. This radiation pollution, unlike other pollutants, cannot be seen, heard, smelled, or tasted.

The normal releases of radiation by the nuclear industry occur at the stages of uranium mining, milling, uranium enrichment, through to the storage and eventual burial of nuclear wastes.

That’s assuming that there are no unusual releases – “incidents”, leakage from containers, transport accidents, failure of cooling towers in reactors etc.

And, of course – no theft of nuclear materials, terrorist actions, no use of depleted uranium in “conventional” wars, and no nuclear war

1.This month

Read summaries of submissions to the Senate, re the Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. Each summary has a link to the full submission. Obviously the Department of Industry Innovation and Science (DIIS) was not happy with the majority of submissions opposing the process, so now are trying to get a better (for them) result

SUBMISSIONS CALLED FOR – about “Broad Community Support” for a nuclear waste dump in Kimba or Hawker, South Australia

The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science wants submissions between 1 August and 24 September 2018. People can resend the submissions already sent to the Senate Inquiry. Submissions to the department will only be made public where permission is provided.

See our page: Submissions on Radioactive Waste Code 2018/ Submissions published by ARPANSA are overwhelmingly critical, and in opposition to the Federal nuclear dump plan for rural South Australia. [not to be confused with the current SENATE INQUIRY Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia.]